Gozi Co-Author Pleads Guilty As Authors Behind Citadel, Dridex Arrested

The author behind one strain of banking malware, Gozi, has plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing while two other men, who allegedly had a hand in developing the banking malware Citadel and Dridex, were recently apprehended. Latvian Deniss Calovskis, 30, acknowledged in a federal court in New Yo...

New Evasion Techniques Help AlienSpy RAT Spread Citadel Malware

Hackers have co-opted AlienSpy, a remote access tool, to deliver the Citadel banking Trojan and establish backdoors inside a number of critical infrastructure operations. AlienSpy is a descendent of the Adwind, Unrecom and Frutas Java-based remote access Trojans, according to security company...

New Citadel Trojan Targets Your Password Managers

Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not an easy task and that too, if you have a different password for every different site. But luckily to make the whole process easy, there is a growing market for password managers which provides an extra layer of protection. Wait! Wai...

Citadel Variant Targets Password Managers

The Citadel Trojan has once again branched out beyond its roots as banking malware and is now targeting the master passwords guarding major password management products. Researchers from IBM Trusteer today said they’ve notified makers of the nexus Personal Security Client, Password Safe and KeePa...

Citadel Used in Attacks Against Petrochemical Companies

Cybercrime tools continue to crossover into the realm of nation-state targeted attacks, with the latest example being a variant of the Citadel banking Trojan used in attacks against petrochemical companies in the Middle East. The attacks took place within the past few months, said researchers at...

Citadel Variant Opens Backdoor After Malware is Removed

When hackers have compromised a valuable computer, maintaining persistence on that machine is the key to maintaining access to its resources and stored assets. A new variant of the Citadel banking malware has been discovered that comes with a feature that allows the attacker to leverage remote...

Tinba Banker Trojan Source Code Posted

The source code for Tinba, known as the smallest banker Trojan in circulation, has been posted on an underground forum. Researchers say that the files turned out to be the source code for version one of Tinba, which was identified in 2012, and is the original, privately sold version of the...

Citadel WebCit 7.02/7.10 showuser who Parameter XSS

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24913/info Citadel WebCit is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities, including multiple HTML-injection issues and a cross-site scripting issue, because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input dat...

Citadel SMTP <= 7.10 Remote Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. Citadel SMTP = 7.10 Remote Overflow Exploit http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/2008-vs-GNU-citadel.tar.gz milw0rm.com 2008-01-21...

Citadel/UX <= 6.27 Remote Root Format String Exploit

No description provided by source. / citadelfsexp.c Citadel/UX v6.27 remote format string exploit Use: ./citadelfsexp -h host options options: -h arg host or IP -t arg type of target system -l targets list -g arg syslog GOT address -r arg RET address coki@nosystem:/audit$ ./citadelfsexp -h...

Citadel/UX 5.9/6.x Username Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10833/info A buffer overrun vulnerability is reported for Citadel/UX. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking when processing 'USER' command arguments. An anonymous remote attacker may be capable of...

Citadel/UX <= 6.23 Remote USER Directive Exploit (Private Version)

No description provided by source. / Citadel/UX remote exploit By nebunu: pppppppal at yahoo dot com This is the version which contains targets,abuse it kiddies Bruteforce: You only have 4096/4=1024 tries. The magic offset lies about 2048 + or - 4,8,16....256 So practically speaking you have...

Citadel/UX 5.9/6.x Username Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10833/info A buffer overrun vulnerability is reported for Citadel/UX. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking when processing 'USER' command arguments. An anonymous remote attacker may be capable of...

DDoS Attacks a Cover for Financial Fraud, IP Theft

It’s difficult to imagine a noisier attack than a distributed denial-of-service attack. They’re an ever-present threat to banks and other businesses where the uptime of Web-based services is critical to customers and the well-being of an enterprise. And as a handful proved throughout 2013, they a...

Citadel Backconnect Server 1.3.5.1 Remote Code Execution vulnerability

start "backgroundexec" cbcs.exe listen -cp:faggot -bp:hacker | echo "" shell.php Usage Info Edit the code and run ! import urllib import urllib2 Citadel Backconnect Server 1.3.5.1 Remote Code Execution vulnerability Work only on windows box def requesturl, params=None, method='GET': if method ==...

New Banking malware 'i2Ninja' being sold via underground Russian Cybercrime Market

Researchers at Trusteer spotted a new banking malware program on the underground Russian cybercrime market, that communicates with attackers over the I2P anonymity network is for sale on underground Russian cybercrime forums. Dubbed 'i2Ninja', malware has most of the features found in other...

Malware Evasion Techniques Dissected at Black Hat

Malware ingenuity isn’t limited to its functionality or its ability to propagate. Sometimes malicious code has to have guile to survive. That means for the most part having an innate understanding of when it’s being analyzed by a security expert. Numerous samples from different malware families...

Microsoft: 88 Percent of Citadel Botnets Down

Nearly two months after the company was part of an operation to disrupt a large number of Citadel botnets, Microsoft said that 88 percent of the botnets spawned by that malware have been taken down. Citadel is a Trojan designed specifically to steal financial information from a variety of sources...

KINS Banking Trojan For Sale in Underground Forum

It seems the cybercrime underground is pining for a new breed of banking Trojan. With heavyweights such as Citadel no longer generally available for purchase, rumblings on forums for months have indicated that a new project would be welcomed and financed. Since February, researchers at RSA’s...

Fake FBI Ransomware Targeting OS X Users

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert yesterday warning users about a strain of ransomware purporting to come from the FBI that is targeting Mac OS X machines. This time, the ransomware isn’t malware at all, but a website that uses JavaScript to load numerous iframes. The webpage...